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L. E. PARKER SLIDING ATTACHMENT F68 FILLING MACHINES Filed Dec. 11. 1923- 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

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L. E. PARKER SLIDING ATTACHMENT FOR FILLING MACHINES Filed Dec. l1. 1923 2 Sheets-Shoot 2 Patented Nov. 1, 1927.

- UNITED'STATESVZ PATENT OFFICE.

LUGIAN E. PARKER, OE WADSWORTH, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE OHIO MATCH COMPANY,

' OF WADSWORTH, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

SLIDING ATTACHMENT FOR FILLING MACHINES.

Application filed December 11, 1923. Serial in 679,999.

This invention relates to sliding attachments for filling machines, that is, attachments or auxiliary machines for use in connection with the box filling'machines of match machinery, for the purpose of sliding the filled boxes or trays into the slides or shucks for them.

The object of the invention is to provide a sliding attachment for .match boX filling machines, whereby the assembling of the slide or shuck upon the filled box or tray of matches may be accomplished mechanically 1n a rapid and uniform manner, to the end.

filled boxes into the slides,'as I will proceed now to explain and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated Figure 1 is a side elevationof the device of the invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing a number of the assembled links of the travelling carrier, and illustrating the operation of pushing the box into the slide. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation taken transversely of the machine and longitudinally through one of the links of the travelling carrier.

The machine comprises a bed or table 1 supported upon suitable legs 2 so as to be of a proper height for the reception of filled boxes of matches from a box filling machine when installed for cooperation with such a machine. Mounted in bearings 3 carried by the table 1 are shafts 4 and 5 carrying pairs of. notched wheels 6 and 7, respectively,-

whose peripheries extendabove the plane of the upper surface of the table 1.

Carried by these pairs of wheels 6 and 7 is an endless travelling carrier 8 composed of a plurality of links 9 which extend transversely of the table 1. These links are connected by chain elements 10 suitably rigidly secured to the links and connected to each other by spindles 11 provided with reduced portions 12 extending through the chain elements and forming the pintles therefor. The spindles l1 carry rollers 13 which engage with the notches 14 of the wheels 6 and 7.

Theshaft 4 is driven in the direction of the arrow, F ig. 1, from any suitable source of power, such as the drive of the match ma.- chine itself, by means of a chain and sprocket gearing 15, Fig. 2, and it will thus be seen that by the engagement of the notches 14 with the rollers 13 the travelling carrier 8 will be moved along over the top of the table, the rollers 13 after disengagement from the notches 14 of the wheels 7 rolling along upon the top of the table 1, and thereby supporting the links of the carrier in a uniform plane above the top of'the table.

Each of the links 9 of the carrier is provided with a slide receiving portion 16 (see Fig. 4) depressed sufiiciently below the remainder of the upper surface of the link to accommodate the thickness of the material of which the slide is formed, and adjacent to this portion 16 each link has a guide mem ber 17- olfset as at 18 and 19, similarly toaccommodate the thickness of the material of the slide. It will be seen that when the links of the carrier are travelling over the surface of the table 1, at which time their upper surfaces are in the same plane, the guide members 17 will bear such relation to each other, as shown particularly in Figs. 2 and 3, that they form between them spaces of such width and length as to snugly accommodate the slides, the depression of'the portion 16 and the offset 18 of one guide member and the offset- 19 of an adjacent guide member providing such a relationship between these parts and the slides that the openings of the slides will register with the faces of the guiding members adjacent to their offset portions and with the upper surface of the links, and the material of which the slides are formed will lie within the depressed portion 16 and the offset portions 18 and 19 and will not form an obstruction at the entrance ends of the slides when the same, as will be hereinafter pointed out.

Each link of the travelling carrier isprovided with an abutment or pick-up member 20 notched as at 21 to receive the ends 22 of filled boxes of, matches are advanced toward a strip or trough 23 upon which the filled boxes of matches may be conveyed from a box filling machineto the sliding attachment, and as the filled boxes are advanced along this member 23, the abutments or pick-up-members will, in succession, each pick up a filled box of matches from the member 23 and carry such box along upon its respective link. v

Each link 9 is furnished with a pusher member24 carried for sliding movement in gibs 25, and each pusher member is pro-, vided with a cam following roller 26 adapted to travel in a cam groove 27 formed in a cam member 28 suitably secured to the top surface of the table 1. It will be seen that as the travelling carrier advances across the surface of the table 1 the rollers 26 in follow ing the cam groove 27 will cause the pushers 24 to be advanced towards the slide holding ends of the links, and in thus advancing will gradually push the filled boxes of matches into the slides complemental thereto, the arrangement of the slide within the space formed by the depressed portion 16 and the offsets 18 and 19 affording easy entrance of the box within the slide, as above mentioned. As will be seen particularly by reference to Figs. 2 and 4, an angle member or guard 29 secured to the table 1 forms a stop along the ends of the links 9 against which the match box slides will abut, so that they will not be pushed out of position by engagement of the boxes of matches with them.

also in Figs. 2 and '4, I show means for ensuring the proper entrance of the boxes of TIlRtCllGS into the slides in so far as the tops of the slides are concerned, their bottoms and sides being taken care of by the depression 16 and recessed portions 18 and 19 of the guide members 17 respectively, this means comprising an additional guide and holddown member 30 having its lower face recessed as at 31 to accommodate the thickness of the material of the slides, and its leading edge slightly bevelled as at 32 to facilitate entrance of the boxes of matches thereunder, this guide member being carried by an arm 33 preferably pivotally secured to the cam member 28 and held in proper adjusted position by a latch member 33 carried by the table 1.

As will be seen, particularly by reference to Figs. 2 and 3, the leading ends of the guide members 17 are bevelled or slanted as at 34- to facilitate the entrance of the boxes of matches into the slides.

The table 1 is cut away as at 35 and 36 in order to permit the travelling carrier to pass therethrough around the wheels 6 and 7.

It will be apparent that after the operation of pushing the match boxes into the slides, the thus assembled boxes and slides will be, carried along by the carrier and will pass over the wheels 6 with the carrier.

Obviously, if some means is not provided to prevent them, the match boxes, when the carrier becomes inverted on its passage around the wheels 6 will fall out and away from the carrier, and instead of all of the boxes being discharged at substantially the same point where they may be easily collected, or carried to a packing machine, they will be scattered along under the sliding machine. To prevent this scattering of the boxes, I provide a shield 37 (Fig. 1) which extends for a predetermined desired distance around and under the inverted carrier so that the boxes of matches will all be discharged at one point.

The operation of the sliding attachment would appear to be obvious from the fore going description, but, in the interest of clearness, the various steps in this operation maybe stated as follows :Assuming that a box filling machine is located at theright of F igs; 1 and 2, with its discharge end adjacent to the sliding machine, the filled boxes of'ma'tches will be discharged from the filling machine upon the strip or chute 23 and will successively force each other along this strip until they are picked up Successively by the pick-up members 20 of successive links of the carrier as the links progress upwardly around the wheels 7. The boxes will therefore be discharged successively upon the links of the carrier, in substantially the lateral relationship thereto illustrated in dotted lines at A, Fig. 4. It will be noted that the cam groove 27 has a portion of its length running parallel to the line of travel of the carrier, and that therefore no movement will be imparted to the pusher members 24 while their rollers 26 are travelling in this portion of the groove. This makes it possible for slides to be adjusted in the spaces provided therefor between the guide members 17 as indicated in dotted lines at B, Fig. 4, before any movement of the pushers 24 is started tending to insert the box within the slide. As the carrier progresses along the top of the table and the rollers 26 consequently progress along the cam groove 27, the pusher members will be projected and will gradually push the boxes into the slides by a progressive movement, the slides being held against longitudinal movement with respect to the links by means of the angle member or stop 29, and against tilting movement by means of the guide members 30. Ofconrse, when the rollers reach the highest point in the cam groove indicated at C, Fig. 2, the boxes will have been completely inserted within the slides, and the subsequent conformation of the cam groove will then be. such as to retract the pushers to their initial position.

The carrier will continue its travel, carrying with it the completely boxed matches, the boxes, as above pointed out, being prevented from falling out of the carrier until they reach the end of the shield 37, at which point, as they drop out, they may be collected by hand or may be deposited upon a conveyor and conveyed thence to a packing or other machine' It will be obvious that by this means the sliding operation of the machine may be continuous so long as slides and filled boxes are fed to it, and inasmuch as the size of the slides and boxes is standardized and mechanical safe-guards such as the recessing and bevelling of the guide members 17 and the provision of the guide members 30 are taken, failure of the machine to operate properly is reduced to a minimum.

It is possible that various changes may be made in the'construction of my machine ithout departing from the spirit of the invention, and I therefore Wish it to be understood that I do not consider my invention s limited to the specific embodiment shown and described, except as hereinafter pointed out in the claims.

What I claim is 1. In a sliding'attachment for filling machines, a travelling carrier adapted to re ceivev filled boxes of matches and slides therefor separately, means for fixedly positioning said slides in predetermined relation to said carrier, and means carried by said carrier for assembling said boxes of matches Within said slides.

2, In a sliding attachment for filling machines, a travelling carrier composed of a plurality of similar links each adapted to receive a filled box of matches and a slide therefor separately, and means carried by each link and capable of actuation by cooperation With relatively stationary means for assembling the boxes within the slides.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of Dec. A. D. 1923.

LUGIAN E. PARKER. 

